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Peter Orlovsky
Peter Anton Orlovsky (1933-2010), American Beat poet, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg; author of Clean Asshole Poems and Smiling Vegetable Songs (1978); archive at the Ransom Center.
Peter Orseolo
Peter Orseolo (Orseolo Péter), born in Venice around 1010, was King of Hungary in 1038–1041 and 1044–1046, restored by Emperor Henry III and blinded in the 1046 uprising.
Peter Ostrum
Peter Ostrum (born 1957) is an American retired veterinarian and former child actor, the Charlie Bucket of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), his only film; he declined a three-picture contract and practiced large-animal veterinary medicine in Lowville, New York.
Peter Outerbridge
Peter Outerbridge (born 1966) is a Canadian actor best known for lead roles in Canadian series such as ReGenesis and films including Cool Runnings and Saw VI.
Peter Ozsváth
Peter Ozsváth is a Princeton mathematician who, with Zoltán Szabó, introduced Heegaard Floer homology in 2000, an invariant of three- and four-dimensional manifolds, and won the 2007 Veblen Prize.
Peter P. Edwards
Peter P. Edwards, born 1949, is a British inorganic and materials chemist, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford, known for metal–nonmetal transitions and microwave routes to hydrogen.
Peter P. Nawroth
Peter P. Nawroth is a German physician-scientist known for research on diabetic late complications, especially methylglyoxal, who held a Heidelberg chair from 2001 to 2020.
Peter Palandjian
Peter Palandjian (born 1964) is an American businessman and former professional tennis player who is chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, which he took over in 1993.
Peter Palese
Peter Palese is an American virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who pioneered influenza reverse genetics and pursues a universal flu vaccine.
Peter Palotas
Péter Palotás (born Poteleczky) was a Hungarian forward for MTK Budapest, an Olympic champion in 1952 and scorer of the first hat-trick in European Cup history.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie's eternal boy, first printed in The Little White Bird (1902), staged in 1904, and novelized as Peter and Wendy (1911); famous for Neverland, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, and a century of film and stage adaptations.
Peter Pan (1953 film)
Peter Pan (1953) is Walt Disney Productions' animated adaptation of J.M. Barrie's play, released February 5, 1953, directed by Luske, Geronimi, and Jackson, with Bobby Driscoll as Peter, Kathryn Beaumont as Wendy, and Hans Conried as Hook and Mr. Darling.
Peter Pan (1954 musical)
Peter Pan (1954 musical): Broadway musical by Mark Charlap, Carolyn Leigh, Jule Styne, Comden and Green, directed by Jerome Robbins, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard; 152 performances at the Winter Garden and a record 65-million-viewer NBC telecast.
Peter Pan (2003 film)
Peter Pan is a 2003 live-action fantasy adventure film directed by P. J. Hogan, adapting J. M. Barrie's play, starring Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Jason Isaacs.
Peter Pan & Wendy
Peter Pan & Wendy is David Lowery's 2023 live-action reimagining of Barrie's novel and Disney's 1953 film, streaming on Disney+ from April 28, 2023, starring Ever Anderson, Alexander Molony, Jude Law, and Yara Shahidi, with girls in the Lost Boys and a reframed Tiger Lily.
Peter Pan Live!
Peter Pan Live! was NBC's three-hour live musical broadcast of December 4, 2014, starring Allison Williams as Peter and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook, adapted from the 1954 Broadway musical; it drew 9.1 million viewers, about half of The Sound of Music Live!.
Peter Pan syndrome
Peter Pan syndrome, an informal pop-psychology term coined by Dan Kiley in 1983, describes adults who avoid responsibility, commitment, and emotional maturity; not a DSM or ICD diagnosis, linked to the Jungian puer aeternus and the enabling Wendy dynamic.
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare is a 2025 British horror film directed by Scott Chambers, in which Wendy Darling tries to rescue her brother from a murderous Peter Pan.
Peter Parham
Peter Parham is a British-born immunogeneticist at Stanford University School of Medicine who defined the molecular basis of HLA class I polymorphism and pioneered the KIR receptor field.
Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
MCU Peter Parker is Tom Holland's Spider-Man, debuting in Captain America: Civil War (2016), starring in the Home trilogy and Brand New Day (2026), defined by the No Way Home spell erasing his identity.
Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man film series)
Peter Parker of The Amazing Spider-Man films is the Marvel character as played by Andrew Garfield in Marc Webb's 2012 and 2014 reboots and No Way Home, with mechanical web-shooters, Gwen Stacy as love interest, and a cancelled third film.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man
Peter Parker: Spider-Man, the 1999–2003 Marvel Comics series (Spider-Man vol. 2), relaunched with Howard Mackie and John Romita Jr., continuing the 1990 Spider-Man series' legacy numbering.
Peter Paul (actor)
Peter Paul (born 1957, Hartford, Connecticut), American actor, producer, and bodybuilder; identical twin of David Paul; together the Barbarian Brothers, known for The Barbarians (1987), Think Big, Double Trouble, and Twin Sitters.
Peter Paul Fernandes
Peter Paul Fernandes (1916-1981), Karachi-born Goan field hockey forward, won gold with British India at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, scoring twice against Japan, and also played first-class cricket for Sind.
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Flemish Baroque painter and diplomat of Antwerp; ran a workshop of about 25 assistants producing roughly 2,000 works; court painter to Archdukes Albert and Isabella, knighted by Charles I, married Hélène Fourment in 1630.
Peter Pauson
Peter Ludwig Pauson (1925–2013) was a German-born British chemist who co-discovered ferrocene in Pittsburgh in 1951 and worked in Glasgow, where the Pauson–Khand reaction is named for him.
Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány (Pázmány Péter, 1570–1637) was a Hungarian Jesuit, cardinal, and archbishop of Esztergom who led the Catholic renewal in Hungary under the Habsburg kings.
Peter Pellegrini
Peter Pellegrini, Slovak president since June 2024, former prime minister (2018–2020), founder of Hlas, ally of Robert Fico; won the 2024 runoff with 53.26% against Ivan Korčok.
Peter Perlmann
Peter Perlmann (1919–2005) was a Swedish immunologist at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, known for developing the ELISA test, discovering ADCC, and researching the Pf155 malaria antigen.
Peter Pevensie
Peter Pevensie, High King Peter the Magnificent, is the eldest Pevensie sibling in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia; crowned at Cair Paravel, he appears in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Last Battle.